We've all been there: we're in a movie theater and someone in front of us stretches and we are blinded by their Apple Watch. The good news is that there is a way to stop this from happening so that you are not the person who does this. I know that I get irrationally angry [...]
It's that time of year again where Hollywood celebrates and promotes the best that it has to offer to the world. This morning at 5:30 PT the nominations were announced at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. There weren't many surprises, with the exceptions of Greta Gerwig [...]
2023 for me was the year of great scripts. My top 6 all have Oscar-worthy screenplays and it made for a truly wonderful year in film. It's also the year that Marvel might have downgraded to being on life-support (I can't believe that no MCU film made the list here). But let's get to it! [...]
Introduction It’s no secret The Last Jedi is among the most divisive films in recent memory. Many Bothans/fans across the internet (both fairly and unfairly) purport that it is the most un-Star Wars of all the films in the saga. But a fun thought exercise for those fans would be to challenge them to whether [...]
Introduction Animation studios seem to wax and wane in both the tone and quality of their films. An interesting example of this is how DreamWorks started out with a really serious tone with Prince of Egypt and then shifted to irreverent genre benders like Shrek and then really taking off (no pun intended) with the [...]
Introduction If Die Hard is a Christmas movie, then so is Hook. The former is more in the category of "Christmas Adjacent", which is usually defined as a film that takes place during Christmas, but the plot could easily have taken place during another time of year with very minimal changes to the script. Many [...]
Introduction I suppose it was only a matter of time for Godzilla to once again, become a main stay of cinema. Long gone are the days when a performer would put on a ridiculous, dinosaur-looking costume and wreak havoc over a miniature set. Now with how fantastic visual effects look and with the advent of [...]
Introduction Prequels are fickle things. While it seems, we are at the tail end of Hollywood's sequel-itis, the studios are still trying to find ways to use their tried-and-true intellectual property to get the audience back. Prequels are an interesting way to do this, but often executed with middling results. The pattern that blockbuster prequels [...]
It’s easy to forget that Trolls World Tour was one of the first pandemic films, in that it was the first major studio release during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Universal, who is the owner of the Trolls studio DreamWorks, decided to experiment and release the film directly to Premium Video on Demand (VOD), much to the chagrin [...]
A 4K restoration of a beloved classic film can be very risky business. Disney is without a doubt the worst offender and you can head to Disney+ for the proof, with so many titles seemingly just put through generic upscaling software solely so they could have enough Ultra-High Definition (UHD) content at launch of the [...]
